II ULUSLARARASI ÇOCUK VE GENÇLİK EDEBİYATI SEMPOZYUMU

- Never let chance lead to the solution of a problem in your story
- Never ...
xOn the first day of Experience Room, the writers are asked to erase all the techniques, formulas
and dos or don’ts, they have so far leant about fiction writing, from their mind. Then, with a
clean mind, they should assume that they are going to offer a new definition to the fiction world
with their own story.
3. The Construction of the Fictional World, Building up the Setting
"The buildings surprised me. They were different shapes and sizes. All were pyramidal. There
was something in the pyramids, similar to a window, in the form of a triangle, to be seen. But I
did not understand why they were placed there. The carriages were travelling along the roads,
full of ups and downs. They were all pyramidal, but they were placed on the side, not on the
base ...
The entire city was engulfed in a pale green light. I felt as if someone hit my back with punches,
but there was no one there. It was the lead earth of the city of the tripods which drew us toward
itself like a magnet ... "
(The City of Gold and Lead from the Tripods Trilogy - John Christopher)
The creation of a fictional world of the author’s own type; this is the most important creation
which should occur in Experience Room. Without creating a fictional world, no story will be
built. During at least two sessions, the students, like a little god, think about the world of their
story and then built it up. What is the architecture of the setting of their story like? The houses?
The streets? The public spaces, the interior spaces? The objects? What are the creatures of
their setting like? Are they human beings or other creatures? What is their body like? How is the
motion in the city? What is the geometry of the space? How is the time? Is it real or expanding
or contracting? The past? The future ... how do the characters speak? How do they think? The
means? The technology, people's life? Communication? ... The trainees think about all the
peculiarities: physical, metaphysical, psychological, emotional, inner, outer, historical and the
social setting of their story.
In the novel Away and Long, (one of the novels of the fourth course of Experience Room, now
under print) the story begins with the narration of an elf called Away and Long:
"Night was falling when I arrived at an ordinary courtyard. I was tired and I wanted to sleep on
the top branches of the vine. In fact, I was that type of genie who wished to watch the sky at
bedtime. At night I used to lie on the top branch of walnut tree or vine, put my hand under my
head and, looking at the stars and listening to my favorite song, sleep ... "
In the fictional world of this story, the relationship between the boy and the genie and their physical
and metaphysical atmosphere in today’s Tehran is depicted so well and realistically that
not even for a moment you think of the oddness of this story.
24 novels were created and published during three workshops of Experience Room. I dare to
say that 24 fictional worlds were created: none were the same as the other one. None resembled
the fictional world that had already been written. This is exactly the main point of our fight with
the replication of stories: the fictional world.
The study of the peculiarities of the fictional world of five novels created in Experience Room
reveals the significance of our struggle with replication and stereotype in our workshop.
The End of the Game:
The main character of the story is a programmer, who, through coding , enters the virtual
world. There he meets his parents who had also entered the virtual world by his own mistake.
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